Paul VanderKlay's Podcast
1,429 episodes - English - Latest episode: 16 days ago - ★★★★★ - 149 ratingsI am a minister in the Christian Reformed Church. I have a YouTube channel where I do commentary on religion, theology, belief, and thought leaders like Jordan Peterson, Eric and Bret Weinstein, the IDW and anything else I find interesting. I also have conversations with many in my audience.
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Big Daddy Don Garlits and the Christian Life
May 08, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 25.1 MBWarren Mills was the host for the Jordan Peterson Phenomenon Conference in Melbourne Australia last year and the author of "How Good is the Golden Rule". He's now preparing to launch another book on his childhood hero, Big Daddy Don Garlits who was the father of drag racing. We talked about upcoming book. Jordan Peterson Conference Playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_prMglq2Xg&list=PLYSXopxC8Z9upEUyma7iAx85fInTFnl-H Introducing Warren Mills https://youtu.be/GfhWAsPGfG0 Second chat wit...
The Jordan Peterson Prayer, from a Skeptic's Point of View
May 07, 2020 13:00 - 2 hours - 174 MBMichael and Karen are veterans of the channel. Karen started her own named "The Meaning Code" and you can find their stories and links to their previous conversations below. They've proven to be an engaging conversational duo so I asked if the three of us could talk together. Michael had the idea of beginning with prayer. Jordan Peterson Sam Harris Bret Weinstein Vancouver 1 https://youtu.be/d-Z9EZE8kpo Karen's Story https://youtu.be/ZC03aNsPHOQ First conversation with Karen https://youtu.be...
With Byrne: Pandemic, Decadence, Woodstock, the American Cargo Cult of Fun
May 06, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 44.9 MBByrne runs The Anadromist Channel and Georgian Crossroads Channel. Byrne and I have had a number of conversations over the last couple of years. He's a wealth of wisdom and cultural knowledge and perspective. Links and notes below The Anadromist https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIAtCuzdvgNJvSYILnHtdWA Georgian Crossroads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeFJ6Tm71ieNcjcUb-Trc8g the Joker Conversation https://youtu.be/ELo279fyc3Y Ellul https://youtu.be/ovrd-oFs6bQ Francis Schaeffer https://you...
My Pastoral Wishlist for a Second Jordan Peterson Wave
May 05, 2020 13:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBA lot of people ask me if or when I think Jordan Peterson will be back on the public stage. I tell them all that I have no idea. I don't know Jordan personally. I have no source of information about him apart from what is publicly known and I don't seek it out. He has a right to privacy and we should respect that. There is a lot of anxiety out there about Jordan and so I thought I'd make a video of unsolicited advice that would be my wishlist for what his flourishing into a second wave of in...
The Unnecessary Pastor of the IDW. Post-Tyrannical Experts of a Haunted Fiction?
May 04, 2020 13:00 - 2 hours - 226 MBEric Weinstein is on a roll. He's pushing hard to try to fill the vacuum left by Jordan Peterson. Can he get there? A big part of Peterson's power came from the fact that he understands religion in a way that few in the IDW seem to get. Until Eric learns to appreciate the history of religion in the secular world he's not be able to create a wave like Jordan's first. Charles Taylor A Secular Age https://amzn.to/35sL1pR Andrew Root The Pastor in a Secular Age https://amzn.to/3aY7GeO Postmodern...
Hope for Living Stoners Stuck between Average and Atrocity
May 02, 2020 16:16 - 48 minutes - 66.3 MB1 Peter continues explaining the path from the normal stuckness of human beings into the kind of glory we hardly dare to imagine. Click here to meetup with other channel viewers for conversation https://discord.gg/jdVk8XU The link will prompt you to download the software for this free group messaging service. This link updates every 100 users so look for the most recent videos if this link doesn't work. If you want to schedule a one-on-one conversation check here. https://paulvanderklay.me...
Searching for Vocation, the Holy Spirit and the Institutional Church
May 01, 2020 15:17 - 58 minutes - 22.8 MBAndrew shares his story. Scotland Morrison, Urban Abbey Thunder Bay ON https://youtu.be/oWQ8bUrYPhU
Caputo's Post-modern Christianity and James KA Smith On The Road with Saint Augustine
April 30, 2020 13:00 - 2 hours - 186 MBBefore my conversation with Julian he sent me a video with Robert Wright talking with John Caputo about post-modern Christianity. Caputo does a nice job walking through the roots of post-modernity and showing what he struggles to preserve about Christianity. James KA Smith, a professor of Philosophy at Calvin College sees Augustine as anticipating post-modernity in his alienation. My talk with Julian https://youtu.be/ucjss0bm8lo Robert Wright and John Caputo https://youtu.be/-9R9h56PmQo Mich...
With Julian on Jordan Peterson, James KA Smith, John Caputo, Vervaeke, Pageau
April 29, 2020 13:00 - 2 hours - 47.3 MBI'm doing another round with channel veterans. Julian was one of the first conversations I had. We went all over on this one covering Jordan Peterson, postmodernity and James KA Smith, the conversation between Robert Wright and John Caputo that Julian sent to me. Vervaeke's religion that's not a religion, and a bunch of characters on the Discord server. Great fun. Julian's Blog https://coffeewithkierkgaard.home.blog/2020/04/18/the-patient-ferment-of-the-early-church-a-summery/ Political powe...
Peter Thiel, Progress, and Religion as the JPEG of BEING
April 27, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 121 MBPeter Thiel is Eric Weinstein's friend and boss and there is obviously a lot of trade between them in terms of ideas. Thiel was recently with Eric Metaxas at Socrates in the City and talked about Progress. The video is well worth watching. This is not an indepth treatment of that video but rather a revisiting of the subject of how we know the good and therefore how we might imagine we can know what progress is. Peter Thiel Eric Metaxas Zero to One https://youtu.be/SO_00POR-Po Zero to One htt...
Resurrected Jesus as the Revelation of our Future Selves
April 25, 2020 14:51 - 35 minutes - 48.6 MBThe resurrection is often portrayed as a miraculous island in the middle of stagnant history. This is not how the Apostles saw it. The resurrection was a revelatory event that showed us the whole trajectory of our transformation in the middle of it. How it impacts morality is that we are admonished to begin living our destination now. 1 Peter 1. Logos Made Flesh Conversation https://youtu.be/rAlmXRJt0u8 Arrival Trailer https://youtu.be/tFMo3UJ4B4g The Secret of our Success https://amzn.to/3b...
Chicago Meetup Covid Conversation: From Lockdown to Let-up
April 24, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 35.4 MBHank, Sam and Bruno are the leaders of the Chicago Jordan Peterson Meetup group and they wanted to do a conversation about the pandemic. Chicago Land Jordan Peterson Meetup https://www.meetup.com/Chicagoland-Bridges-of-Meaning-Meetup Click here to meetup with other channel viewers for conversation https://discord.gg/2uUhZBK The link will prompt you to download the software for this free group messaging service. This link updates every 100 users so look for the most recent videos if this lin...
Logos Made Flesh: Symbolism, Movies, Seeing Through to Truth
April 23, 2020 13:57 - 1 hour - 40.9 MBMatt Miller has the YouTube Channel Logos Made Flesh where he unfolds the symbolism in some of the most popular movies of our time. He's an officer in a correctional facility and a former youth pastor. How did he come to such an interesting hobby? Why does he make so few videos each year? We dig into his story and the man behind the channel. Logos Made Flesh Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/youthnation1 Multnomah Bible College https://www.multnomah.edu/ Matt on Twitter @logosmadeflesh Jo...
Eric Weinstein, Ross Douthat, Saving the World not FROM but FOR
April 22, 2020 13:00 - 2 hours - 188 MBEric had Ross on the Portal and it did not disappoint. This was a substantive, meaty conversation with lots of interesting aspect. Again, the aching gap for Eric is the emphasis on the technical and the avoidance of the religious. Douthat is a terrific conversation partner for him. Portal with Douthat https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-portal/id1469999563 Douthat the Decadent Society https://amzn.to/3cBPg4z Thiel on the Portal https://youtu.be/nM9f0W2KD5s Bret on the Portal https://yo...
The Church's Need for Confessional Conversation about Same-Sex Marriage
April 20, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 101 MBOne side wants the conversation ONLY if it yields the political victory they desire, the other side tells me talk is pointless it's time to stonewall or to leave. I disagree. Confessional Conversation done right. https://youtu.be/HKC6YQf3ILo Same Sex Marriage and the Patriarchs https://youtu.be/cJaJ0YAv2JM Dr. John Suk https://youtu.be/R2MRBF5DUgs Ross Douthat on Eric Weinstein's Portal https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/30-ross-douthat-the-rave-before-the-fall/id1469999563 Was I Too Hard...
Jesus is the Black Swan
April 18, 2020 15:37 - 36 minutes - 50.6 MBWe assume the way the world gets rescued through economics and political action by some superpower. Jesus killed no one. Led no group larger than a few dozen ordinary people yet changed history more than anyone else. How did he do it? We get lost looking a big groups. Let's look at one man, Peter. The Black Swan https://amzn.to/2KhTd2q The Weinsteins and the End of History https://youtu.be/xkuw8dDAThA Dominion by Tom Holland https://amzn.to/3akhKyr Click here to meetup with other channel vi...
With Ron Dart on Jordan Peterson, Roger Scruton, Tories, State and Church
April 17, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 29.8 MBon is back for another conversation. He's been doing interviews on his book on Jordan Peterson that is out (see our last conversation). There is a recent article out in Touchstone magazine comparing Peterson and Scruton who is recently deceased. We began there and our conversation wandered into all sorts of interesting places. Links Below. Conversations with Ron Dart https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYSXopxC8Z9um39zheDcRBWeihV83oucs Touchstone https://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/art...
Pastoring the Pandemic Lockdown One Month In (Sacramento CA)
April 16, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 41.8 MBWe're a month into the lockdown in Sacramento and I wanted to gather a group of colleagues and friends to walk through the events of the last month and do some debriefing and reflecting. Christ Church Davis https://www.christchurchdavis.org/Welcome/Home Sacramento City Life Church https://sacramentocitylife.com/ River Rock Church of Folsom https://www.riverrockchurch.org/ RR Reno Keep the Churches Open https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/03/keep-the-churches-open Calvin Institute...
Jordan Peterson's God Structures vs. Sam Harris God Allergy
April 15, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 141 MBI re-watched the 4 Jordan Peterson/Sam Harris debates and had some additional observation on what essentially happened there. Now after a couple of years of thinking about these issues here is some of what I see. Vancouver Debate 1 https://youtu.be/d-Z9EZE8kpo Vancouver Debate 2 https://youtu.be/BtkwF5qA6uE Dublin Debate https://youtu.be/ZZI-FwSQRn8 London Debate https://youtu.be/YfdaAGZvYsA Bret Weinstein with Alister McGrath Unbelievable https://youtu.be/kRx2uNMJFnU Jordan Peterson with R...
Confessional Conversation Done Right: Brett Salkeld and Sam, Incarnation and Transubstantiation
April 14, 2020 13:00 - 2 hours - 191 MBBefore I started my YouTube channel I was very concerned that my denomination, the Christian Reformed Church was failing to have what I call confessional conversations. We were unable to accurately and graciously explore different theological positions in a public way. I have wanted to have on my channel a variety of conversations that people from many perspectives would find helpful for their own ability to work in the church. Here I put a brief introduction onto an existing video conversa...
Understanding Secularity and Christianity through Finnish Folklore
April 13, 2020 14:36 - 59 minutes - 23.2 MBAltti has written to me a number of times over the past couple of years with a lot of fascinating observations about language, life and Christianity through wisdom gained from pre-Christian Finnish folklore. He's from a Lapland indigenous tribe who now work in high-tech electronics making satellite components. He's also an elder in a Pentecostal church in Helsinki. He always brings me such interesting stuff so I'm glad I can share this with you. Click here to meetup with other channel viewe...
Easter Resurrection, First Fruits of the New Creation
April 11, 2020 15:56 - 36 minutes - 50.4 MBThere's some grieving this Easter. No service. No family gatherings. We're used to a celebration and instead because of COVID its just more isolation. Does this calamity surprise us? Stephen Jenkinson who was a hospice counselor notes that Western culture inculcates a culture of surprise and denial at misfortune and death, but death is inevitable and should be expected. CS Lewis in Life in an Atomic Age wonders what kind of world we thought we were living in. If there is only "Nature" then o...
Mythical and Online Troll-craft and the Glory of God (Conversation)
April 10, 2020 13:00 - 55 minutes - 21.7 MBLars calls in from Sweden to share his story and talk about trolls, translating subtitles, mythology and glory. Click here to meetup with other channel viewers for conversation https://discord.gg/2uUhZBK The link will prompt you to download the software for this free group messaging service. This link updates every 100 users so look for the most recent videos if this link doesn't work. If you want to schedule a one-on-one conversation check here. https://paulvanderklay.me/2019/08/06/conver...
Eric and Bret Weinstein and the End of History
April 09, 2020 13:00 - 52 minutes - 72 MBBret and Eric Weinstein have been on a mission to save the world. As we've seen in the last two videos they want to save humanity which is itself the cause of our crisis. After the Cold War Francis Fukuyama imagined that from then on out it would be Democratic capitalism that brought in the eschaton, but no such luck. The Intellectual Dark Web, or what's left of it after the recession of the first Jordan Peterson wave is trying to have a religious conversation while trying to avoid religion ...
Dr. John Suk, From the CRC to the United Church of Canada
April 08, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 42.8 MBDr. John Suk grew up in the Christian Reformed Church in Canada, son of Dutch immigrants. He became a CRC minister, Banner editor, foreign missionary and the president of the Institute of Christian Studies in Toronto. He wrote a book about his reasons for leaving the faith of the CRC and joining the United Church of Canada pastoring at Lawrence Park Community Church. https://www.lawrenceparkchurch.ca/ He blogs here http://faithisntwhatyouthink.blogspot.com/. Dr. John Suk's book https://amzn....
Weinstein and Schmachtenberger Search for Fullness Beyond Status and Pleasure
April 07, 2020 13:00 - 2 hours - 178 MBEric Weinstein's Portal podcast arrives at a fascinating conclusion. They realize that all the goods of status, pleasure and enjoyment only go so far. Could they point to something beyond this world? Gk Chesterton's "Heretics" made this point over 100 years ago. We know the good only because we know evil and we struggle to know the good as such. You cannot have progress unless you have a vision of the good. Portal 27 https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kast-media-2/the-portal-2/e/68383234 GK...
Eric Weinstein and Daniel Schmachtenberger Grope Towards Eschatology
April 06, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 84.2 MBPandemic has the lovely effect of focusing one's mind. Eric Weinstein and Daniel Schmachtenberger (and I thought I had a long name...) had an amazing conversation about avoiding the end of the world. What is interesting (as it almost always is) is what they hold in common. Their visions of "the good" are deeply shaped by Christendom. In many ways they are running parallel to Ross Douthat's Decadence book. Douthat is of course a committed Roman Catholic and he has a very interesting podcast c...
Jesus, You're No Judas Maccabeus. Palm Sunday as Black Swan Event
April 04, 2020 13:00 - 30 minutes - 41.5 MBPalm Sunday is where Jesus is received as King by some in Jerusalem. He cleanses the temple and shows his kingship over the natural world as well. What was on the minds of those in Jerusalem? Would he lead a revolt like Judas Maccabeus?
Same-sex Marriage and the Bible: Sex Lives of the Patriarchs
April 03, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 113 MBI met (virtually) with Nuance Forum and got a question I regularly get. "What do you think about same-sex marriage?" People want a yes/no answer or a minute answer and that never satisfies me. First because my answer doesn't matter. People's beliefs on this are already deeply baked in by a myriad of inputs that have far more influence than I. I decided to make at least one, and maybe more videos about this as a way of exploring a number of issues about the Bible, morality and why these aren'...
Religion as Risk Management: Offspring Survival Through Time
April 02, 2020 13:00 - 54 minutes - 21.2 MBFascinating conversation with Karam. What is religion as risk management? Jordan Peterson got close to it with Sam Harris but not quite there. Nasim Taleb's work comes in. Also Chesterton's Fence. Notes Hasim Taleb’s work Implications of religion over generations JBP and Sam Harris How JBP would mention the importance of an embodied individual to act in the world and not just have beliefs. One of the gaps was the simple notion of going to church on Sunday. Atheists who enroll their children ...
Religion Births Rationality, Decadence and the Resurrection of Christianity
April 01, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 118 MBDoes religion birth the rationality of a culture? I heard an idea like this at the Bellflower meetup and saw something like it in Ross Douthat's The Decadent Society. I start to dig into that book. Touch on Jordan Peterson, Star Trek, Oneida, Kinfolk and then GK Chesterton's The Everlasting man. Douthat's Decadent Society https://amzn.to/2wVuHRk Tom Holland Dominion https://amzn.to/3bL2rjn https://albertmohler.com/thinking-in-public The Feminist Case for Jordan Peterson https://albertmohler....
The Projection, Deconstruction of the Kinfolk Self
March 30, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 119 MBWe thought the deconstruction of the self would advance society, as long as we could deconstruct the other guy or gal. Then we hoped it might help us "get control of ourselves" without asking who is getting control of what. Vanity Fair had a terrific piece on Nathan Williams and Kinfolk. Eric Weinstein Periscope https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1242159513228075009 The Inconvenient Truth about the authentic self https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-inconvenient-truth...
Would Jesus allow his friends to suffer and die?
March 28, 2020 15:51 - 28 minutes - 39 MBIs the coronavirus the judgment of God? What do you understand by the word "God"? Isn't it God's job to keep his friends from all suffering? What if he only allows people we think deserve it to suffer? Should your personal comfort be God's highest goal? https://www.dailywire.com/news/idris-elba-very-obvious-earth-unleashed-coronavirus-on-us-for-beating-up-the-planet https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/coronavirus-nature-is-sending-us-a-message-says-un-environment-chief Click here ...
Craig Evans asks me about Jordan Peterson, Vervaeke, Pageau and more
March 26, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 88.9 MBWhen I jumped into Nathan Ormund's stream the other day Craig Evans asked if I'd come on his show, so I did. Here's our conversation. From Craig's Channel https://youtu.be/hg2hxms3tyM Craig Evan's Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5a-8FBHGbj8-nrKxPZNoOg Click here to meetup with other channel viewers for conversation https://discord.gg/2uUhZBK The link will prompt you to download the software for this free group messaging service. This link updates every 100 users so look for th...
Could CRC/RCA re-alignment resolve interminable conflict over same-sex marriage?
March 25, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 35.2 MBOn March 11 I hosted a conversation between 4 pastors of churches in British Columbia. Two pastors from the RCA Classis there and two ministers from two different CRC classes there. The Reformed Church in America has been struggling with how to resolve their deep divisions over same-sex marriage. One group of RCA churches have formed what is called "The Gospel Alliance". They are threatening to leave the RCA if they don't 1. Discipline classes and congregations that don't accept marriage bet...
Pandemic Skeptics and the Day of the LORD
March 24, 2020 13:00 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBSkeptics are a feature of human community, not a bug. Skeptics are a part of the process of finding truth. If you have a community of knowledge you will have skeptics. In this time some knowledge of that the Bible calls "the Day of the LORD" is helpful. It always comes, we are seldom ready for it. It comes to all of us, alone or together. Links: OSJ Controlling the Virus Narrative https://www.wsj.com/articles/controlling-the-virus-narrative-11584899715 (paywall) Evidence and Hysteria https:/...
Who's Sin Caused the Covid19 Outbreak? Judgment of God? Full Version
March 23, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 98.3 MBThis is a completely different recording from the sermon released Friday even though many of the slides are the same. Here's the short version. https://youtu.be/m8cxCoZr5_4 The answers people give to this question totally depend on their worldview and their definition of "God". This is my "sermonized" answer to the question. Monday I'll put out a longer, fuller version. This week's lectionary text is John 9 where Jesus' disciples ask "who sinned" to case a man to be born blind. Him or his pa...
Is the COVID19 Pandemic the Judgment of God? (Short Version)
March 21, 2020 16:00 - 35 minutes - 48.8 MBThe answers people give to this question totally depend on their worldview and their definition of "God". This is my "sermonized" answer to the question. Monday I'll put out a longer, fuller version. This week's lectionary text is John 9 where Jesus' disciples ask "who sinned" to case a man to be born blind. Him or his parents? Jesus' answer might not satisfy you. Tim Keller is Pandemic the Judgment of God https://www.foxnews.com/faith-values/coronavirus-update-christian-question-god-judgmen...
CRC Navy Chaplain Coronavirus COVID19 in Italy
March 20, 2020 17:52 - 27 minutes - 10.5 MBLloyd Wicker has been a friend and colleague of mine for a number of years. He was pastor of the Almond Valley CRC in Ripon CA until he joined the service as a Chaplain in the US Navy. He is currently stationed in Sicily. He's been on Facebook talking about his experience of the outbreak in Sicily so I invited him on the channel to share some of what he has learned. Click here to meetup with other channel viewers for conversation https://discord.gg/2uUhZBK The link will prompt you to downlo...
4 Stages of Pandemic Sense Making with COVID19
March 19, 2020 14:43 - 42 minutes - 57.7 MBSensemaking is a buzzword in the IDW. When conditions change we are forced to alter and re-calibrate how we view the world and respond to it. COVID19 is forcing many of us to do this. What does that process look like? Many of us will become new selves in the process. We will change. We will be forced to change. We should observe ourselves through this change and learn about the process. Rebel Wisdom Coronavirus Sense-Making https://youtu.be/3--5kcQIkyQ Wikipedia Sensemaking https://en.wik...
Covid-19 Pandemic Pastoring: Isolation Begins
March 18, 2020 15:22 - 58 minutes - 80.3 MBThere is no bigger news than the world Pandemic. This has taken over reality for most of us. I'm going to vlog my experience of this lest I forget. I also think this is a golden opportunity to do a lot of reflection and learning about knowing and sense-making. I expect we are in this for the long haul. Here is my first report. Dr. John Campbell's YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF9IOB2TExg3QIBupFtBDxg Jordan Peterson at Lafayette College https://youtu.be/V32WHDuy-Do Joh...
Job tells his story to Faith over Breakfast
March 17, 2020 14:45 - 1 hour - 83.3 MBWhen we were in Tucson the podcast Faith over Breakfast also recorded and episode where Job tells his story. A lot of this story happened on this channel and also on the Discord server (links below). Here is the Faith over Breakfast podcast episode https://www.buzzsprout.com/97804/2915731-job-van-achterberg-from-athiesm-to-theism-to-communion The Job Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYSXopxC8Z9to_1IQWB9gNjYaRfzvPLad Bridges of Meaning Podcast https://bridgesofmeaning.podbean.c...
Brett Salkeld 2, Transubstantiation, Evolution, Causality Creation ex nihilo
March 16, 2020 15:47 - 2 hours - 52.9 MBBrett is back for a second conversation. He followed the comments closely from our first talk and has way more to say. Our first conversation https://youtu.be/SloRs2yzmvo Dr. Brett Salkeld is the Archdiocesan Theologian for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Regina Saskatchewan and the author of "Transubstantiation: Theology, History and Christian Unity". Brett has a podcast https://archregina.sk.ca/thinkingfaith Website https://archregina.sk.ca/archdiocesan-theologian Transubstantiation book...
Jesus Brings Peace in the War between Sowers and Reapers
March 14, 2020 16:19 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBIf there was a time when we wanted Jesus to be a Matrix superhero for some of us it would be now. The possibility of a modern plague that kills our weak and elderly makes death a very real thing up close. How do we process this? David Brooks in his Opinion piece this week noted that pandemics often kill compassion. Scarcity is a new thing for some of us. We hoard. We fear. We are ready to fight. Throughout history we survived by, as Abraham Lincoln said in his second inaugural "wringing our ...
March 2020 Meetup Tour Postponed
March 12, 2020 23:06 - 13 minutes - 5.26 MBSorry we have to postpone. This turned into not a good week to leave my congregation. We'll plan another one when things settle down.
Rhett and Link, Not Sure, Deconstruction, Hell, Death, COVID19, Prophet of Agency
March 12, 2020 16:07 - 1 hour - 93.5 MBRhett and Link adopt a posture of being not sure. This echoes the doubt movement of a decade ago where Rachel Held Evans and CRC Pastor John Suk wrote doubt books. Doubt is an important part of the process of faith. Yet what always interests me is that doubt in some areas yields asserted certainty in others. They may be skeptical about theology but certain about politics. Here's the Google Doc I used. It's just notes. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-zKpX_FnBvBUIZxzIjQe8rvHM5RYipIBfmDNJv...
Tom Holland on Christianity as Blasphemous Parody of the Worship of Caesar #Dominion
March 10, 2020 13:57 - 1 hour - 40.5 MBTom Holland demonstrates that history writes the best literature. Unfortunately many historians don't write for a popular audience. Tom began by wanting to write fiction but fell in love with history and hasn't turned back. Along the way he was grabbed by the beauty of Christianity and has been trying to figure out how it changed the world and is changing himself. He graciously gave me a couple of hours for a conversation. Delingpod Interview https://youtu.be/R8J2aChrf7Q Dominion https://...
Pastoring through Jordan Peterson Videos and Meetups
March 09, 2020 14:02 - 53 minutes - 74 MBJohn van Donk, Job and I traveled to Tucson AZ to begin our meetup tour. Eric Cepin, pastor of The Village and Andy Littleton, pastor of Mission Church Tucson have a podcast called Faith over Breakfast (https://www.buzzsprout.com/97804) where they interviewed myself and John Van Donk about how I got started making videos about Jordan Peterson and how John Van Donk pushed me into doing meetups around the country. You can find the podcast episode here. https://www.buzzsprout.com/97804/2908492...
Jesus, Serpents, and People who don't know their real problem
March 07, 2020 16:52 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBLast week we asked "why doesn't Jesus just fix our problems like some Neo superhero?" These were in many ways the temptations of Satan to him. This week we meet Nicodemus who wants to recruit him as a political/religious ally to resolve the Roman crisis. Jesus engages Nicodemus but not in the way he wants nor expects. Click here to meetup with other channel viewers for conversation https://discord.gg/2uUhZBK The link will prompt you to download the software for this free group messaging ser...
Rhett and Link's Post-Enlightenment Post-Evangelical Intuitive Spirituality Pt 2
March 06, 2020 13:25 - 1 hour - 113 MBIn Part 1 I ran through some church history from Renaissance to Reformation to Enlightenment to Post-Enlightenment through the lens of Owen Barfield's evolution of consciousness. Here I want to do a deeper dive into Nathan Jacob's assessment of the rise of the Nones which I think is one of the best. Part 1 https://youtu.be/CUdZPdVnv08 Rhett and Link Lost Years https://youtu.be/hYCgz-MiNE4 Rhett and Link Missionary Years https://youtu.be/2_5PG-cl9WE Rhett's Deconstruction https://youtu.be/1qb...